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For the bulk of this episode, there are 3 main focal points: Guts's struggles to get to Casca in time and then later his fight with Mozgus, Casca's burning and rescue, and the struggles of the refugees as they are annihilated by the evil blob crea...

Hatsune Miku: Magical Mirai 2017 Following the final performance of Magical Mirai 2016 tonight, the first news update for Magical Mirai 2017 has been announced! The event will be held on September 1st~3rd at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan next year.

NEWS Morning Musume '16 will perform at MBC's Asia Music Network Big Concert in Seoul on October 6th. This year there are 71 participating artists, 57 are Korean and 11 are international including Morning Musume '16 who will be representing Japan.

One way to describe 'rationality' is as the ability to always make the best choice in the service of self-interest. With that in mind, consider a hypothetical, perfectly rational donkey. It is set down a straight path until it comes to a fork in t...

It's been a while since we last saw Yoshitaka Yuriko in a drama, after actually breaking out in the 2014 Asadora series "Hanako to Anne". But she's back and she's taking the lead role for NTV's new Wednesday drama Tokyo Tarareba Musume (Tokyo "Wha...

Haikyuu! ! is back with a brand new season (already in its third season with this one to be exact) next month, and as the spikers of Karasuno High are preparing for their battle against Shiratorizawa Academy, a brand new PV has been released for t...

South Korea's leading talent agency SM Entertainment is going to Japan with its restaurant business that has drawn unexpected success at home, company officials said Monday. SM aims to open "SMT Tokyo," the Japanese branch and the first overseas v...

When the first announcement and Preview Video Clip came out for the OVA series of Mahoutsukai no Yome (or "The Ancient Magus Bride" in English) I was positively ecstatic. Most everything about the preview showed top quality on most every level, an...

The glamorous idols of Love Live Sunshine have attempted to fill the void that their beloved Riko has temporarily left, resulting in more tear-filled drama, an abundance of yuri and a love triangle of sorts that will surely captivate any dedicated...

The first feature film for the Kizumonogatari trilogy saw a theatrical release earlier this year in Japan and the US earlier this year (read our review) and now Aniplex USA has laid out the days for the second one The second film is titled Nekkets...

This fall, starting October 8th, Sunrise again enlists Gintama's Yoichi Fujita for something with some skewed sensibilities. Set to broadcast on the ostensibly educational NHK-E, Sengoku Basara's Makoto Tsuchibayashi provides character designs for...

Seeing as how Japan cannot have enough idol based shows, the MAGES property Idol Jihen is expanding its mixed media scope to include an anime series that will debut in January 2017. The series will be directed by Daisuke Yoshida with MAPPA and VOL...

Following in the footsteps of previous shows and movies, the Lupin III franchise has now chosen to focus on its flawless samurai Goemon with the announcement of "Lupin III: Chikemuri no Ishikawa Goemon", a film that will potentially be rife with s...

There is just a week left until the release of Kyoto Animation's upcoming anime film adaptation of Yoshitoki Ooima's Koe no Katachi (A Silent Voice) manga and a new promotional video has been released.

Bandai Namco has officially announced Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 - Road to Boruto following a reveal in Weekly Jump last week. The game, due out on February 2 in Japan, follows the story of Boruto, Naruto's son, in a new generation o...

Type-Moon and Marvelous's upcoming Musuo-style action game for the Fate series, Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star, is slowly taking shape, with new servants being added. Now, they have revealed new gameplay videos for two servants, starting off with "...

Ahh. . . The leaves begin to fall. The air gets brisk. Apples get picked. It's autumn. And the new season of anime is right around the corner. Each season, 10,000 Japanese fans vote on their most anticipated new anime for the upcoming season on Ch...

The greatly hyped bonus bikini episode that will accompany Musaigen no Phantom World's 7th BD/DVD has obtained another delectable CM, suggesting numerous service scenes and possibly securing a multitude of purchases from both fans of the series an...

For the first time since 1991, the champshion of Nippon Professional Baseball's six-team Central League (the one without a designated hitter) has gone to the Hiroshima Carp. Manga artists were among the many folks taking to social media to celebra...

After a hit tour of Tokyo, Osaka and Sapporo that topped 40,000 visitors, the MadoGatari exhibit celebrating the 40th anniversary of anime studio Shaft added a Nagoya engagement in May, then topped that with an encore Tokyo exhbition this month.

By Asma . September 10, 2016 . 10:15am Final Fantasy Brave Exvius players can now summon the Fencer, Juggler, and Thief from Final Fantasy Crystal Defenders. Drop rates have been boosted for the trio through Friday, September 16 at 12:59 a.

Kanji no Owari is a mobile Kanji memorization game from Sekai Project seeking votes on Steam Greenlight for a PC release. According to the publisher, it "is a Japanese language learning game that helps the players in memorizing Hiragana, Katakana,...

This week, book listings began carrying a May 30th, 2017 release date for Dark Horse's recently announced Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko-Piko Middle School Students, a parody named for arcade sound effects.

After last month's Japanese release, American Jpop and Anisong singer Stephanie Yanez's release of "gaNISOn" in Japan, this week Yanez announced her worldwide release of her Anime cover album "HANEDA INTERNATIONAL ANIME MUSIC FESTIVAL Presents Ste...

Mikami Shigeru not only plays video games to win, he's also a designer. He's programmed and sold a number of casual games, but he's looking for the ultimate game experience, and he hopes someday to create that ultimate experience himself.

Koei Tecmo has released a new gameplay video of its upcoming Berserk game showcasing the actions of playable character Guts in his Berserker armor. If you missed it, previous videos showcased Zodd, Schierke, Casca, Judeau, Griffith and Guts.